大娘 | dà niáng | (coll.) father's older brother's wife; aunt (polite address) | |
新娘 | xīn niáng | bride | |
娘家 | niáng jia | married woman's parents' home | |
红娘 | hóng niáng | matchmaker | |
娘子 | niáng zǐ | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman |
1 | The kitchens were full of cooks and maids who hadn't moved for a hundred years -- They were all fast asleep. | |
2 | I turned to ask the elderly lady -- the Mom in the "Mom and Pop" equation -- who was equally non-conversant in English. | |
3 | His mother was getting old, he' d explained to his friends; the thought that he, too, was no longer a young man in need of adventures he had kept to himself. | |
4 | A:That son of a bitch!Does he dare to say so to my face? | |
5 | "Yeah, " he tells me "and look at the poor motherfucker. |